Staring over Chapter 7, a bleach fanfic

On November 14th Grimmjow was in the hotel room looking up apartments and small houses for himself and Oichi. They couldn't stay here forever, and he'd be damn if he stayed in debt with her old man. Oichi had managed to get away from him that morning and sneaked off to work. He cursed under his breath. He wanted to have some nice morning sex, but she had gotten up earlier then usual and by passed him. He had been catching her off guard, forcing her to call out of work due to her inability to walk. He chuckled. Watching her struggle to get away from his sight amused him. He loved playing and teasing her. Giving her a small scene of false hope before he pounces on her once more. She had told him that he was like a cat playing with its prey. He took it as a compliment.

He heard a buzzing sound on the table. He looked to see someone was calling him from an unknown number. He picked it up. "Who the hell is this?" He asked in a stern voice. He heard a chuckle on the other line. "Well done in trying to sound like a touch guy but it doesn't work on those who actually have a spine." Recognizing the voice Grimmjow sighed. "Oh it's you. Demorest wasn't it? My lawyer?" "Very nice in remembering my name, anyways I've called to tell you that your court date has been changed. Instead of the 17th it will be the day after, the 18th." "What? Why was it changed? Something happen or something?" "No, I just got it changed since it seems like the 17th was an important date to you plus, that gives us more time to prepare." "Prepare?" "None the less, enjoy your days with Ms. Oichi. See you at the court house on November 18th at 3pm on the dot. DO NOT be late." Before Grimmjow could say anything, Demorest hung up. "Well shit…that changes some things…" Grimmjow says taking out a small note book. "That means I can get some last-minute things done."

At the café, Oichi yawned as she took an order. "You look so tired Oichi." One of the customers says. Oichi smiled. "It's been a rough couple of nights. You know…" The customer nodded. "Yeah, it sucked that you got pulled into all that drama, but we all knew you aren't the type of person to do something like that. I'm glad they cleared your name." Oichi smiled. "I'm glad they did to. It was quite a joy ride. I'm just ready for this to end." She walked off carrying their order. She handed it to her cooks before she went to the counter. She started to clean it when Ikkaku and Yumichika walked in. "Wow…never been in here before…" Ikkaku says looking around. Oichi hid a frowned. "Welcome you two. Can I get you anything?" They sat down at the counter in front of you. "Just some green tea for me." Ikkaku says. "Can I get a menu? I've been wanting to come him for the longest!" Oichi nodded and grabbed a menu from under the counter. "I'll be back in a few with your tea." She says handing Yumichika the menu. She turned on her heels and quickly walks to the back. It wasn't like she hated them but, after the night she had with Ikkaku it was a bit hard for her to feel the same around them. She did understand that they were just doing their job and she even got a hand-written apology from Toshiro saying and explaining that. However, whenever she looked at Ikkaku all she could see was him yelling at her forcing her to look at those horrifying pictures and trying to get her to change her story to sell Grimmjow out. Oichi shook her head as she bottled her thoughts back inside. 'Work, work, work. Keep your mind busy so you can distract yourself. Oichi says in her mind.

Ichigo and Chad walked in and saw Ikkaku and Yumichika. "You got some balls to come here…" Ichigo says. Ikkaku looked at him. "We are on break, so I got dragged here." Yumichika was reading the menu. "We were only doing our jobs Ichigo. It sucks that Oichi got dragged into this, but we did what we had to do." "Yeah, I'm sure you did…" Ichigo says coldly as he also sat at the counter, two seats away from them. Oichi walked out with Ikkaku's green tea. "Have you figured out what you wanted?" Yumichika sighed. "There are so many things I want to try! I don't even know where to begin! What would you recommend for a newbie like me?" "Pancakes." Oichi says slightly flatly. "P-Pancakes?" Yumichika says. Oichi turned the menu to the middle section and pointed to the pancakes. "It's a good breakfast food. You get three fluffy pancakes, up to three toppings of your choosing." Yumichika frowned slightly. He didn't really think Oichi would have him order something plainly.

"Oichi! Order for table 6 is ready!" A cook yells out. "I'll be back for your order." Oichi says as she walked towards the kitchen. Yumichika watched her go. He sighs. "Do you think she hates us now?" Ikkaku sips on his tea. "We did put her through the wringer. I say her actions are expected." Yumichika pouted. "I don't want her to hate me at least! You, I can understand, but poor little me haven't done anything!" "Oh get over it. It's not like it would be the first time we lost 'friendships' over out jobs." Ikkaku says rolling his eyes.

Oichi came back to them with an order in her hand. It was a stack of pancakes with strawberries, chocolate chips, and bananas on it. It looked and smell very delicious. Yumichika and Ikkaku's eyes widen as the smell smacked them in the face. "W-Wow! Are those…" Oichi nodded. "Yes, these are the pancakes I recommended to you. I just wanted to let you see how it looked." She smiled a bit before walking to her table. "I want some!" Yumichika says smiling. He looked at the toppings. Ikkaku rubbed the back of his head. "I guess I'll try some to."

Downstairs, Rukia sighed as she rubbed her stomach. Things weren't really going all that well with her and Renji. Ever since they saw the news about Oichi, Renji seems to be distant from her. He would stare at his phone or ask to be alone sometimes. He says its work, but she could see the concern and worry in his eyes for Oichi. She had a lot on her own plate and with Renji not helping she was getting a little stressed. She wanted to have a baby shower. She asked Momo for help and she happily said she would get things in order. She came up with a guest list and at the bottom was Oichi's name with a question mark. She wanted Oichi to come and she wanted to settle all of this, putting this behind them, and hopefully become friends again. If not for her then for the baby. Rukia wanted Oichi to be the God mother but Renji said no. He told her that it might feel like a slap in the face to Oichi. Rukia rubbed her head. Would nothing be the same with her and Oichi?

Nel walked by her with Grayson on her arms. He was sleeping. "Oh…Morning Nel." Rukia says. Nel shot her a glare before heading to the stairs. "Nel wait please!" Rukia says. Nel groans out. "What Rukia? I have to clock in soon…" "D-Do you think I'm wrong?" Rukia blurted out. Nel raised her eyebrow. "Excuse me!?" "Do you think me and Oichi will ever be friends again?" Nel felt something snap in her and she went over to Rukia. She raised her hand getting ready to smack her, but some employees stopped her and even took Grayson out her hands. He was jolted from his sleep and quickly started to fuss. "You bitch!" Nel yelled at Rukia. "You really think you and Oichi can ever be friends! What the hell is wrong with you!? You think all your sad sorries will make everything better!" Rukia shook as she backed away from Nel. "Nel please stop! You're going to make things worse on yourself!" An employee said. "Quick go get Oichi!" Someone said. The employee who was holding a crying Grayson quickly rushed upstairs.

Upstairs, Ikkaku and Yumichika were tearing into some pancakes. Oichi couldn't help but to let out a giggle. Just then the employee ran in with Grayson. "Oichi we got trouble!" Oichi frowned seeing Grayson. "What did Nel do now?" She says walking around the counter. She took Grayson from her and bounced him a bit to get him to calm down. "Rukia asked her a question and Nel just snapped at her!" Oichi shook her head and Grayson buried his face in her shoulder. "Ichigo?" Oichi says. Ichigo got up. "Yeah, I got it." He walked downstairs with her. Nel was glaring daggers at her. "Nel…" Ichigo says walking passed Oichi. The employees let her go. Nel reached out for Rukia only to be grabbed by Ichigo. "Let me go! I'll beat her face in!" Nel says struggling. Ichigo rolled her eyes and dragged her out towards the back. "Don't be an idiot." He mumbles.

Oichi shook her head. "What happened here?" Rukia looked down. "I just asked her a question that's all." Oichi looks at her and nodded. "Alright then. I'm sure Nel overacted at whatever you asked. You should refrain from getting to close to her unless it is for work. I don't want you to be in stress every time you come here." Rukia nodded. Oichi looked at the other workers. "Please keep an eye on Rukia. Don't let her work to hard. Other then that please get back to work." "Yes ma'am." The workers said and went back to their duties. Oichi walked outside to the back where Nel was chewing out Ichigo.

"I don't care! She knows better then to ask that to me! If she wasn't pregnant I would smack the hell out of her!" Ichigo groans. "Nel you were about to smack her…" "That's not the point!" "Nel." Ichigo and Nel stopped fussing and look to Oichi who had a blank look on her face. They both froze and shook. "I understand that Rukia isn't the most liked person right now, however, this is a work place. Our actions reflect our looks, rep, and money." She narrowed her eyes. "I love you like sister but if you get out of line again like I will have to give you a proper punishment. So please keep your anger in check okay?" Nel sighs and nods. "Yes boss. I understand. Sorry." Oichi smiled. "Good. Now what question got you so mad?" Nel crossed her arms. "The chick asked if she was in the wrong and asked will things ever be the same again. Ugh. Like in what world is that ever going to happen!" Oichi chuckled. "I see. Who knows. Maybe years later after all of this is done with I might consider it. For now, let's keep the personal stuff at home and outside the work area please? Just do what I do and tone her out." She turns back around. "The more she stresses the more Renji comes here and the more I have to deal with them both. So, let's try not to do that." She says walking back in. Nel shook her head. "I swear, she is to strong for her own good. If I were her I would have fired Rukia, smacked her, then sent Grimmjow after Renji and kill him." Ichigo shivered a bit. "Well let's all be glad she's not like you." Nel pouted and playfully punched him.

In the middle of the city there was a new small shared building that was used by the top branches of both The Soul Society prevention center and the Hueco Mundo corporation. Inside the building there was a meeting room where the head branches had been holding meetings to create similar businesses like the café, since it was doing so well. Today the 1st division leader, boss, and owner of the soul society prevention center, Genryusai was there. Along with Jushiro, Shunsui, and Unohana. For Hueco Mundo, Aizen, Gin, Kaname, Ulquiorra and Starrk was there. They were going to be discussing the events that happened a few days ago and how it would affect the café and their partnership.

Genryusai was an older man with red eyes, a very long white beard, and long eyebrows, there were a few scars on his head, the two most prominent being a pair of long, perpendicular scars above his right eye. He was wearing an old fashion gray suit with an overcoat on. His walking stick was leaning on the table. In front of him there were files on both Oichi and Grimmjow. Aizen was slipping on his tea as he also looked at the files. "Now, I understand that both of these people are very hard workers, but I don't think it is wise to keep Oichi as the Store Manager there. Think how it would look for the people." Gin says. Jushiro frowned. "I would agree with you if Oichi had any criminal background what so ever. The only thing that is shady is her father's past. Her mother is a general in our military. She is well loved by most, if not all, the people in her area. I think keeping her there and working on expanding the café will be better."

Kaname shook his head. "Those are all great statements but, you people brought this on the woman. You could have kept her name out of the press and paper but you were so ready to nail one of our workers to the wall you figured shed be extra damage." Unohana smiles. "I think you are pushing that a little to far. We had every reason to believe that the evidence pointing to Oichi was true and proven. We could not leave any stone unchecked. I feel bad for her I really do but we were only doing our jobs. Besides I do not see any backlash from this. Only from your company." Gin chuckled. "No, you mean your company. You decided to pick on the wrong person who has a very powerful name." He says looking at Genryusai. "Even if he isn't related to you, he must have pulled strings to swipe both Oichi and our own Grimmjow right from under your noses. Your medical department is a laughing stock thanks to the 'false' items you people found in the bust. Haha." Shunsui chuckled as well. "That may be so, but I don't see a reason of why we have to remove Oichi from the store manager spot. Nothing bad happened to her and she has a spot clean record. Even if we did decide to do that who will run the store? We picked her because she has the most experience out of everyone in that store. She is well known which brings in more customers and from our reports tell us she runs a strict but fair schedule. We have received hardly any complaints so why in the world would we destroy that?"

Kaname shows them the picture of Grimmjow. "As you all know, Ms. Yamamoto is seeing our former employee Grimmjow. He already has a criminal past and is well known in the underworld. Do you think people haven't been talking about that since the arrest? Rumors are out there already hitting the streets and rumors do only one thing. Hurt our sales. Who wants to come to café where there is a possibility of a dangerous criminal?" There was a brief silence in the hall. Genryusai took a deep breath and exhaled very loudly. "This is a waste of our valuable time. Why don't you just tell us the real reason you want to replace Oichi Yamamoto." He calmly says, looking at Aizen.

Aizen had a soft smile on his face as he sipped his tea. "I was going to try to get you to see reasons, but it seems like that didn't work. I'm not shocked really. We had to fire one of our best workers just to keep this happy café up float you know. As Kaname said no one wants to come to a place where a person like Grimmjow is freely going to. Now that his past has come to light everyone will look at him differently and start to judge his actions and when that happens the judgement will go to sweet little Oichi and then to the store. Once a bad judgement is placed on the store then we will lose sales. So, to prevent that, we cut Grimmjow off from our side." He sits back and crosses his legs. "Thanks to that we have now hit some setbacks due to the lack of people who can do Grimmjow's job. Our company has taken a small hit so in return for thinking about the café first other then my own company all I ask is you replace Oichi Yamamoto with one of our own."

Shunsui frowned. "That is absurd. What is the point of doing that? Replacing Oichi will not hurt our company. It will only hurt the café something we are trying to prevent. If anything shouldn't you want us to fire one of our own so that our company will also take a hit. This makes no sense Aizen." Aizen kept his eyes on Genryusai and chuckled slightly. "The café still has a long way to go. What happens to that woman shouldn't even be of concern to you. There are no personal relationships you have with her. Without those files you would not know her at all. What is one employee towards your divisions leaders. Going by your logic if we were to request one of your top people to get cut, would do it? Why hurt your company over a small place as that café? Change should be something welcomed not feared. It is time for a new pace and while I respect everything the Yamamoto woman has done she is not strong enough to take us to the next phase. In any case I'm sure she will be welcome else were where her talents can truly florist and bounce back up. If our replacement does not live up to the standards we are placing, then I have no trouble in replacing him as well. You can even get the next pick. So, what do you say?"

All eyes were on Genryusai. They awaited his answer. He looked down at the file of Oichi and looked back at Aizen. "We must discuss this among ourselves…" He says. Jushiro, Shunsui, and Unohana frowned at this. Aizen smirked. "I see..." He placed a file in the middle. "When you come to an agreement this would be the manager of Sweetness Aroma. Contact us when you have decided and then I trust you will take care of the rest." He says getting up. "I believe we are done here so if you will excuse me I must be on my way. I do hope you make the correct decision in this Genryusai." Aizen and his people got their things and bowed slightly to Genryusai before leaving.

Unohana was a bit upset from this meeting. "Sir…do you not think she has been through enough…" They looked at her. "I didn't mean to pry so deeply into her files, but she has been dealing with a lot. Losing her home, money and being accused as an a partner in a major crime she didn't even commit. She has been with that café since her high school years. It is like a last line of defense for her. Why would you consider using her as a sacrificial pawn between our companies? She has nothing to do with this small feud between us…or…is this because of her father?" They looked at Genryusai and waited for an answer. Genryusai grabbed the files and stacked them up. "We need to be more worried about this fragile treaty we have with Aizen and if that means that we might have to sacrifice a woman of unknown value then that is what we do. No decision has been made so we will speak at about this later. I do not fully trust this so-called replacement. I want you to run everything you can on the files and bring them back to me. Then I will make the final decision." He got up with the files and left.

On November 15th Oichi, Nel, Orihime, and Ichigo were in the mall shopping for Grayson's party. They had decided to have his birthday at Momo's place, where they have all the parties at. It had good space and Nel didn't have to spend much money and Momo and the others would take care of the decorates. All they had to do was finishing getting the gifts. The party was going to be around 3pm and have a young justice theme. It wasn't a requirement but Nel wanted everyone to dress up as superheroes for the party. Grimmjow had taken Grayson else were for the day." Oichi couldn't help but to feel a little lonely without him. Since the day after Grayson's birthday is when he is going back to court to be judged. She sighed until Nel wrapped her arm around her. "Stop sighing! We are here shopping for your little Grayson! He's is turning one in two more days! I'm so excited!" Oichi giggled. "I'm sure you are. You're a proud mama." Nel chuckled. "Damn right I am!" They walked into a toy store and went to the young justice section. "Aw! Look, they have things for blue beetle. Mmm…I wonder if they have something for babies. All of these have choking hazards and you hardly keep your eye on him." Oichi says. Nel pouted. "How rude. I do to keep my eye on him." "Uh huh." Oichi says laughing.

Once they visited a few stores they stopped by the food court and order drinks. "So how has house hunting been?" Ichigo asked. Oichi smiled. "Good actually. Thanks to the hours I put in and some small side jobs I've been saving a lot. Grimmjow found some small but nice apartments." Oichi says. "Side jobs?" Orihime says. Oichi nodded. "Yeah. I decided to pick up an old hobby. Crocheting. My sister runs a website that sells cute knickknacks and stuff, so she posted a few of my things and I've been getting a few requests here and there, racking up money on the side. It's not much but every bit helps. We can't keep living in a hotel and with the possibility of Grimmjow's fate going downhill in two days I don't want to take a change of him worrying about me to much. I'd like for him to know that I'll be okay, and that I have stuff saved on the side for when we can finally start our own lives together." She says smiling softly. "Of course, I do have a faith that nothing will happen, but you never know." Nel smiled. "I hate that nut but if he makes you smile like that I can't really complain."

Orihime grabbed Ichigo's hand. "I'm glad that you are happy with Grimmjow. You deserve some happiness of your own." Oichi smiled at her. "Yes, like Grimmjow told me, I'm not alone in this. I have some amazing friends to count on. I couldn't have made it this far without all of your support." Nel leans on her. "Of course, hun! You have been there for us so we will be here for you." Oichi smiles. "Thanks, Nel." Just then Nel's phone went off. She grabbed it out her bag and looked at it. "Hmm…Momo is calling. Wonder what she wants." She answered it. "Hi there Momo!" Nel nodded. "Yeah we are done with the shopping…huh!?" Nel eyes widen and then quickly went to anger. "What the hell do you mean share!" She yelled making people turn towards her. Nel bit her lip and hung up. "Let's go!" She said grabbing her bags. Oichi and the others followed. "Nel what's wrong?" "Damn them and curse Momo's sweet heart!" Nel yelled again. Ichigo sighed. "No point in asking. Let's just follow."

Moments later, Nel was flying toward the large party house where they hosted their gatherings and Grayson's party. Oichi texted Grimmjow where they were as Nel pulled up in driveway. Oichi heard Ichigo cuss under his breath in the back seat. She looked up and frowned. In front of them they saw Renji's car parked outside. Oichis sighed. "Great…and today was going so well."

They got out, with Nel slamming the door and marching to the door. She nearly broke it down as she stormed in the house. "MOMO!" She yelled. "I-In the living room." Momo squeaked out. They followed Nel into the living room to see Momo, Kira, Rangiku, Hisagi sitting on the couch and Rukia and Renji sitting on the other side. Nel growled at them then looked at Momo. "Explain NOW!" Oichi pushed Nel to the side a bit, ignoring Renji and Rukia. "Um, can you tell us what's going on? We just rushed here with an angry Nel with no information." Momo smiled nervously. "W-Well you see…I know I agreed for little Grayson's party to be here on the 17th right?" Oichi nodded. "Well…Rukia wanted to know if she could host her baby shower here as well and while I didn't mind it's just it would be on the um...same day as the birthday party haha…" Oichi closed her eyes for a second, to prevent herself from looking at Renji and Rukia. "No! Why here! Hell, pick another date! We already had this month in planning. You can't just come over here and demand something because you're with child! My son, MY SON is having his party here!" Nel says glaring at Rukia. Ichigo put his hands in his pockets. "I'm sure we can compromise. It might be on the same day and place, but you can have it at a different time of the party." Rukia nodded. "Yes, we were just getting it to that. It will be starting at 3pm."

"What!?" Nell yelled. "oh, HELL no! No! NO! NO!" Ichigo raised his eyebrow. "The same time as Grayson's party?" "Nel calm down." Oichi says tapping her shoulder. "I'm assuming there is a catch to why they are having this on the same at the same time at the same place…" Momo sighed. "My brother…" Rukia says. "He doesn't want us to have the shower at the manor because he is holding something important there all this week. So, he contacted Momo and…" Ichigo groans out. "did some underhanded shit to where Momo couldn't said no. Meaning he paid her and paid for everything, so she didn't even have a chance to say no or explain. I do find it a little funny how a tactful man like that manage to do this." Renji frowned. "We don't want this either. The time thing is because it's the only time he is free that day. We already have everything ready, and we just finished setting things up in the next room. We stay out of your hair and you stay out of ours. Simple. So just suck it up."

Rangiku looked at Renji. "Will you shut up for once…" Renji looked a bit shocked at this and sent a slight glare at Rangiku. Rangiku looked at Nel and Oichi. "What do you want to do? I mean everything is already prepared for the party if you want to have it today." Nel crossed her arms. "No, its no good." Grimmjow has him today and who knows where he is and the outfits me and Oichi ordered won't be ready until tomorrow evening. Nel sighs. Oichi also sighs and then smiles. "Well I guess we will be sharing the house." They looked at her. Rukia looked at her. "A-Are you sure." Ignoring Rukia, Oichi looked at Momo. "The house is big enough two hold two parties. Since the shower is already set up, we can move to the entertainment room. I don't think we will have much people which will make clean up easier and Grayson can enjoy himself even more. The main point is that Grayson enjoys his birthday without any issues. Right Nel?" Nel cursed under her breath before she took a deep breath and nodded. "Yeah…" Rukia frowned and felt hurt from being ignored by Oichi. Renji grabbed her hand. "Well since that is settled we should move our stuff to the entertainment room and get things ready for tomorrow." Ichigo says.

Rukia took a deep breath. Renji looked at her. "Rukia." "I'm going to ask." She said. Renji frowned. "No Rukia. I already told you that it's a bad idea."

Oichi and the others were leaving when Rukia stood up, pushing Renji's hand away. "Oichi!" Oichi stopped but she didn't turn around. "I know things are very different with us right now but…will you please be the God mother of my child." Everyone looked at Rukia with a dumbfound look on their face. Nel bit her lip trying to contain her anger. "A-And…when the time comes will you be…" Renji's eyes widen. "Rukia don't!" "Will you be my maid of honor at our wedding next year in June!" Oichi's eyes widen and then closed. She gripped her fist and then took a deep breath. "Are you out of your damn mind!" Nel yells, finally exploding. "Do you even know what your…" "Nel." They looked at Oichi as she shook her head.

"Thank you for the offer Rukia but I will decline both of those. I ask that you reframe from asking me again." Rukia frowned. "So you will continue to hate me and this child…" "It's not the child I hate. That child in your stomach is nothing but an innocent bystander of two people who betrayed my trust. The last thing I would ever do is blame a child for the mistakes of the parents. I do wish you much luck in your future Rukia and I have no doubts that you two will be good parents. I'm sure that you will have a lovely wedding…h-however…" Oichi had to pause as her voice cracked. "Please…just leave me out of your life…it's what Renji wanted and it's what I've been trying to do. So Stop…Stop torturing me with trying to bring me back in the life I wanted!" She says a bit to loudly then the wanted. There was silence in the house. Nel reached out to her. "Oichi…" Oichi pushed her hand away. "Sorry. I didn't mean to raise my voice like that." She smacked her cheeks and smiled. Well we have a lot to do we should get to work. Don't want little Grayson to be in the blues." She says walking off.

Nel grit her teeth and Orihime and Momo ran after Oichi. She looked at Rukia who looked shocked at the response Oichi gave. Ichigo grabbed her arm. "Nel let's…" Nel snatched away from him and placed her hands on her hips. She lets out a very loud groan, shook her head, stomped the floor twice, and then turned her back from Rukia. "I won't snap." Nel says shocking them. "No matter how much yelling or threating I'd do you will never listen to me. So, I'll do it this way." She turned her head slightly towards them wearing a sadden look. "Oichi has been through enough. Just leave her alone. Nothing you do at this point, Rukia, is going to make things better. You are just hurting her more. So just go with her blessing and leave it at that. Of course someone like you may not even understand what Oichi is going though. No measure of words you say will make her forget the hurt and the pain you and Renji caused her. She doesn't have some kind of restart button where you can press and she magically forgets this shit. You need to face the fact that nothing will be the same as you want them to be." Nel turned her head back to a shocked Ichigo. "Call Grimmjow and tell him to get his ass over here." She storms off to go find Oichi.

Rukia looked down. She felt horrible bringing that up. Renji told her not to but she thought…No she wasn't thinking. She thought that this would be easy. Just letting Oichi cool down and things would be okay. They would be friends again. No, it wasn't that simple. She ruined Oichi's life all because she to scared and weak to tell her that she loved Renji first. Ever since their childhood days. "Renji…can we go?" Renji got up. "Yeah." He grabbed her hand and left out. Holding hands, Renji led her to the car. He helped her in and closed the door. He walked back around and got in and started the car but didn't move. "Renji?" Renji had a frown on his face. "Why did you ask her that?" He mumbles. Rukia rubs her hands. "I just wanted us to be friends again. I wanted us to go ahead and quickly get over this and go back to normal." "Don't you get it Rukia? What we done? There isn't going back from this. We both agreed when we started this whole thing. Nothing will be the same anymore. So please understand that only pushing this more will hurt both you and Oichi, so no more. We will move on with our lives and forget about her and anyone else who doesn't approve." Rukia squeezes her hand. "No, I can't. I can't forget about Oichi like that. Not without explaining what happened. M-Maybe if she…" "There is nothing to explain Rukia. We were together within the six years of me and Oichi's relationship! Yes, we shouldn't have done this. We could have ended this before things got to deep but dammit, I couldn't stop…between my life with Oichi and future with you I…" He gripped the wheel. "I screwed things up. If I would have just ended in high school like it was planned, then we wouldn't have gone that far…" Rukia leans her head back on the seat. "Like planned…it seems that was my fault as well…" They both sat silently before Renji finally pulled out and took them home.

Later in the evening Grimmjow had come over with Grayson, using Ichigo's car. Grayson had a chucky face from eating and was sleeping when Grimmjow took him out his car seat. Grabbing a hand full of bags he walked to the door and rung the doorbell. It was opened by Momo. "Oh! You're here!" She says smiling. Grimmjow shrugs. "Is there somewhere I can lay him down? We had a busy day." Momo smiled. "Sure! You can lay him down in the playpen Nel brought over. We had to move the party to the entertainment room." Momo motion for him to follow her. "Why is that?" Grimmjow asks as he closes the door with his foot. He followed Momo to the second living room where Grayson's party was supposed to be.

The playpen was in the middle on the room. Grimmjow placed the bags on the floor and then carefully placed Grayson in the play pen. He wiggled around in his sleep before sighing. Grimmjow chuckled and he rubbed Grayson's hair. He placed a light sheet over him. Momo placed one baby monitor beside the pen and handed Grimmjow the other. "Can you tell me what's going on?" Grimmjow asked grabbed the bags and followed her to the entertainment room. Momo sighs. "Well…Somehow Renji and Rukia will have their baby shower here as well." Grimmjow frowned. "The fuck you mean!?" Momo rubbed the back of her head. "Well…Byakuya didn't make it easy to say no." Grimmjow growled under his breath. "Then that means we are sharing this place…" Momo nodded. "We did ask Nel if she wanted to move it, but she said no since everything was already in place." Grimmjow ran his fingers through his hair. It sucked that he would be looking at Renji and his chicks face. However, he didn't want to spend his last few days of freedom all pissed and in the mud. "As long as Grayson has a good party that's what's most important." Momo smiled and giggled. "What?" "That's what Oichi said. You two are so cute together." Grimmjow face went red a bit. "S-Shut up…"

They made it to the entertainment room to see Hisagi and Ichigo putting up the banner for Grayson. Orihime and Nel were finishing setting up the young justice decorations. Rangiku was sitting down with a drink in her hand. Kira was in the corner setting up all of Grayson's presents. Grimmjow looked around and frowned. "When is Oichi?" He asked handing the bags to Momo. "She wanted to go get some air." Nel says with her back turn to him. She was setting up the food table now. Grimmjow rubbed the back of his head. "Right…and you just willfully left her alone?" Nel paused. "She's got a boyfriend to comfort her now. I don't need to be all over her all the time now. Unless it retains to you." Grimmjow was a bit thrown off by how calm Nel was acting. Its been a while since he seen her calm state. "We don't get it either." Momo says shrugging. "She's been so calm since Renji and Rukia left. We think she must be broken or maybe needs a drink."

"Uh huh…Grayson is sleeping in the other room. He stuffed himself full of food so be prepared to have an energetic baby on your hands." "Thanks for spending time with him. Now go find Oichi." Nel says. Grimmjow shivered. "Ugh. You being all calm is way scarier then your bitchy self. Maybe you need to get laid or something…" He says leaving. Nel didn't respond as she went on with her work. Orihime was wearing a worried look on her face. "Nel…?" Nel looked at her. "I'm pissed Orihime. I really want to go to that room and tear the whole damn thing down. However, Oichi is trying her best to move on from this. What kind of friend would I be if I make things worst for her." Orihime smiled. "I see…" An evil smirk then came to Nel's face. "That's why when Grimmjow gets her calm and takes her home for some lovin, I'll destroy the hell out of that room." Orihime squeaked. "Y-You just said you wouldn't!" "Ehh!? I never said that. I just won't do it while Oichi is here. Haha. Now back to work!" She lets out a weird evil laugh while placing silverware on the table. Ichigo chuckled. "That's the Nel we all know and love."

Grimmjow walked down the hall a few doors down from the entertainment room. "Sheesh…did this place get bigger or something?" He stopped when he saw Oichi leaning in a doorway. He could hear small sniffles. He walked up to her and peaked in the room. She was standing in front of the baby shower room for Renji and Rukia. It was a light red and bright pink color. There was a banner that said, 'It's a girl'. There were a few gifts set up along with a few party games and balloons. There was a nice comforter for Rukia right in the middle of the room.

'Why the hell is it so bright. Ugh…' He wrapped his arm around Oichi. "I hope your crying because of the colors. Hell, I'd cry to if I walked into this much pink." He heard a small chuckled from her. He looks down to see her whipping her eyes. "Tell me what's wrong. Other then knowing that you'd have to see those two scumbags." Oichi sniffed. "I-In the six years of me and Renji's time together, three of those were from high school and three were from the time I graduated is when we moved in and started working on our future. Like every couple we talked about having kids." She looked down at her fingers. "Once we were married and settle down we would start bringing a child in the mix…the baby shower would have looked a lot like this." Oichi bit her lip. "We had even already come up with names if the chance ever came if I got pregnant before handed. So, I guess seeing this frustrates me because this is what I wanted with him. I bet the wedding in June will be on the same date and theme color as well. It's like I hand delivered them everything." Oichi rubs her stomach gently. "I was so excited for that day to come but, it seems like I'll have to wait even longer before I can even make my own future come to light."

Grimmjow looked around and saw the balloons. He walked over there and grabbed it. "Yeah. I could see how it would frustrated someone like you. Me on the other hand." He squeezed the balloon and popped it. Oichi gasp. "Grimmjow! Don't mess this up!" Grimmjow grabbed another one. "Why not? This room is clearly upsetting you. I say we destroy it." He popped another one and kicked the table over with the party games on it. Oichi looked down the hall to see if anyone was coming. She then ran over to him and held him. "Stop it! Yes, this room makes me upset but you breaking this will…" She paused for a second and then shook her head. "N-No you can't mess this room up!" Grimmjow smirked. "You thought about it for a second didn't you. That means I get the green light huh?" "No idiot! What would you do if someone went and wreaked Grayson's party!" Grimmjow frowned. "I'd beat the hell out of them." "Okay then! So, don't break anything else of Rukia and Renji! This is a big day for them." Grimmjow groans out and turns around to her. "You know for a woman who is supposed to be scorn you aren't acting like it. If it were Nel she would have already torn this place to shreds."Oichi frowned and grabbed him by his arm. "Yes, I know. That calm dementor doesn't fool me." She pushed him out the room and looked down a bit. "So…just do what she usually does…Now go help with Grayson's party while I clean this up." She closed the door leaving Grimmjow pondering her words. He then smirked and head off to the room.

Nel was walking to the room Grayson was in. "Ugh…we can't have one day without looking at them. It's bad enough that we see them everyday at work." She walked in the room to see Grayson still sleep. She smiled and walked over to his pen. She giggled looking at his chunky cheeks. "Your father must have fattened you up pretty good huh." She reached down and rubbed his cheeks. "You look just like him when you sleep. I used to be annoyed by that but I now I've come to love it." She stands up straight and stretches. "You are the only thing I am proud to have from that man." She goes over and sits down on the couch. "If things go well maybe that idiot can really make Oichi happy. Give her what Renji couldn't give her." She giggles. "I do have to admit that I wouldn't mind Oichi giving you a little brother or sister. I think it would be kinda cute." She closes her eyes. "Hmm if they were to have a baby…it might take more of Oichi's skin complex but keep Grimmjow's eyes. It would be her first born so no matter the hair color the baby would have purple streams." She tried to see if she could imagine what their baby could look like.

"What are you in here mumbling about?" Nel opened her eyes to see Grimmjow leaning on the door. Nel smirked. "Just trying to imagine what you and Oichi's future child would look like." Grimmjow rolled his eyes. "Trying to scare me off or something." Nel crossed her arms. "A little. You do know that Oichi wants a big family." "Duh." Grimmjow says walking to the play pin. "Unlike you she had her life in order and future planned out. Now she's being forced to see the life she wanted be lived by someone else…I think any sane woman who was trying to keep it together would get a little desperate." "Oichi isn't desperate." Nel says frowning. Grimmjow reached down and pulled the small blanket off of Grayson. Then chuckled. "I think Grayson would like some brothers and sisters." Nel's eyes widen. "Say what?" "Maybe we might get lucky and have twins. They do run massively in her family or so I here." Nel pouted. "Don't say stuff like that. Your going to get her hopes up." Grimmjow rolled his eyes. "You think I'm saying that to be funny?" He reaches down and pokes Grayson on his cheeks. "Think for once in your life. You think I would go through all this hell just to get in her pants? I gave it up by choice. Oichi is different from other women. Even though I'm broke, flat on my ass, possibly going to jail she's still with me." He chuckled. "To be honest I thought she'd show her true colors and leave once things got to hot but, she didn't. Unlike some people I don't think I'll be letting her go any time soon and if I wanted to settle down then Oichi would definitely be the one I'd do it with."

He stood up after poking Grayson some more. "Once this blows over I plan on telling her everything including about us. So don't go flapping your lips about our past and getting her all mixed up." Nel stood up. "Uh huh. Then what?" "I'll find a job somewhere. I'm sure there is some place who would still hire me. It's going to be crappy for a while but it's not the first time I scratch and chewed my way to the top. I'll just have to do it without using my normal methods. I'm sure whatever happens Oichi will be working her hardest and as a man I can't let her do everything by herself. I promised her that I wouldn't let her go through this alone and you know I hate breaking promises. Then hopefully we can find a place together and go from there."

Nel couldn't help but to be impressed. He was right. Back then Grimmjow wouldn't have let a woman cost him his job. Hell, when they were together, and she told him about Grayson he simply gave her money and went on with his life. He was never the one for just settling down and having children by choice. "Who are you?" Nel asked before covering her mouth. She didn't mean for that to slip out. Grimmjow raised his eyebrow. "Huh? I'm me. Idiot." Nel was about to say something but Grimmjow stopped her. "Whatever. I don't care what you mean, and I didn't come in here for this type of conversation in the first place. I came to ask for your help." This time Nel raised her eyebrow. "What the hell are you going on about?" Grimmjow smirked. "Well…our two goody two shoes Oichi is clearly upset about a certain room. I did flip over a table but got kicked out the room for now. Last words were just do what Nel does…" An evil smile came to Nel's face. "Is that right heehee…"

On the 17th, at 3pm, Grayson birthday and Rukia's baby shower. Momo's place turned to quite a big gathering for Rukia. Byakuya's family and associates had came over along with some of their friends. The shower was moved outside apparently due to the room being completely trashed and ruin by an unknown assailant or two…maybe three. As for Grayson party he was having the best time of his life. He was running around the room in a blue beetle outfit. Nel had invite some of her friends and their children so they were also dressed up and running around with him. Orihime and Ichigo were dressed as Stair Fire and Night wing. They were handing out snacks for the kids whenever they came over. There other friends were dressed up as other superhero characters. Keigo as Aquaman. Mizuiro as Robin. Tatsuki as Black Canary. Chad as Batman. Momo as Zatanna. Hisagi as Green Arrow. Kira as Flash and so on. The kids were delighted by this. Nel was dressed as Wonder Woman. She was looking at her watch and tapping her foot. Grimmjow and Oichi were supposed to be there 10 minutes ago. 'I swear to all things fluffy and cute if they were to busy having sex I'll beat Grimmjow's face in.' She growls to herself mentally.

"Mama!" Nel looked down to see Grayson. "Daddy here!?" He said grabbing her leg. Nel smiled. "He is on his way sweetie. Now go play." "Mk Mama!" Grayson raced off laughing. Nel giggled. "Such a happy baby." The door opened and Oichi walked in. She was dressed as Bumble bee. She had on a black and yellow strip tub top and black pants with a yellow belt. Nel whispers. "Wow. I thought you were coming as Batgirl. Look at all that skin your showing!" Oichi pouted. "I was…until Grimmjow ruined my outfit. So, this is the back up." Nel frowned. "So I was right! That horn ball wasted time in the bedroom." Oichi sighed. "Yeah…I mean it was completely worth it though." Oichi says as her face started to hear up, rubbing her cheek. "He really can throw down when it wants to. I almost didn't want him to stop." "Gross! I don't want to here that…well not here anyways haha. So where is he."

Oichi points beside her. "He's ready." Nel smiled. "Grayson! Come here! Daddy has a surprise for you!" Grayson popped his head up from his group of friends and ran to her. "Daddy here!" He yells out. Oichi giggled and opened the door. Grayson stopped in place as his eyes widen and sparkled. Standing beside Oichi was Grimmjow dressed in full Blue Beetle gear from head to toe. "BEETLE!" Grayson yelled out. The other kids stopped what they were doing and looked at Grimmjow. Their eyes widen and sparkled as well as they ran over to them. Grayson was picked up. Grimmjow hit a button on his hand and it transformed into a smaller version of the sonic cannon. "Happy Birthday squirt." Grimmjow says through the helmet. Grayson screams out in excitement along with the other kids who surrounded Grimmjow hugging his legs. Oichi laughed as Grimmjow did a fair job of entertaining the kids. Nel smiled. "I guess every now and then he could pull through for us." Oichi giggled and walked over to Ichigo and Orihime. "How in the world did Grimmjow pull that off?" Ichigo asked as they watched the kids attack him. Oichi crossed her arms. "He said he still had a few people who owed him favors. It was a last-minute thing when the court date got changed." Orihime smiled. "Aww that's so sweet of him! I never took it for Grimmjow to be so friendly toward children." Oichi nodded. "Yeah, he might look like a terrifying panther but deep inside he is really a cute and fluffy kitten." Ichigo chuckled. "Coming from a person who doesn't even like cats I'll take your words to be true."

Outside at the baby shower. Rukia was sitting down eating. Renji and Byakuya were speaking to the family. Rukia looked around and frowned as she sat her plate down. Her friends didn't show up. They were at Grayson's party. They could have at least stopped by or something. "Rukia." Rukia turned to see Nanao and Isane. "Oh. Hi there." They sat beside her. "So how is everything going with you and Renji? I'm sure you must be quite excited for the baby." Rukia nodded. "Yes, we haven't decided on a name yet, but we can't wait for her to get here." Nanao pushed her glasses up. "For a new soon to be wife and mother you don't seem like you are enjoying your shower." Rukia rubbed her hands together. "No, I am enjoying it. It' just…" "You wish the others were here?" Isane says. Rukia nodded. "Yeah…I know they are still upset with me but there isn't anything I can do to make things better. I tried apologizing, but nothing works. I just make everything worse." Isane rubbed her back. "Things will get better one day. Right now, you shouldn't be focusing on anyone but you and your baby. Things like this can come later." Nemu walked over to them with a blank expression. She had a cup of punch in her hand. "Here you are." Rukia smiled. "Thank you."

"Rukia!" Rukia looked up to see Jushiro and Kiyone. Kiyone was dressed as Katana for Grayson's party. Some of the guest were looking at her with wondering eyes but she ignored them. "Hi there Rukia! I just wanted to stop by and say congratulations!" Rukia smiled. "Thank you and I see…that your heading to the birthday party?" Kiyone nodded. "Yeah. Momo needed more hands-on deck for the games and stuff so she sent out a massive text to everyone." 'I didn't get one…' Rukia says. "Anyways I just wanted to see you first before I went there. Have fun and don't let all this drama get to you. To much stress can hurt the baby and we don't want that." Kiyone says. She looked at Jushiro. "Sir! I request permission to attend my birthday party duties!" Jushiro nodded. "Of course. Have fun and bring back some cake." Kiyone nodded and walked into the house.

Jushiro smiled at Rukia. "How are you feeling today Rukia?" Rukia smiled back at him. "I am doing fine sir. Also, I really must apologize for causing you issues at work. I know that my actions have but you on a bad spot and all." Jushiro shook his head. "Nonsense, its good that most of our workers thought Renji was single in the first place. Not much is really known about his and Oichi's relationship other then close friends." He rubbed his head. "I wonder why that is?" He mumbles. Rukia looked down. "I told him that Oichi wouldn't like it if he went around talking about their love life, so he kept most of it to himself unless someone asked." "Ah…I see. That makes sense." Rukia sighed. "I'm a horrible person, aren't I?" Jushiro pats her head. "No, you are just human and as humans we make mistakes. You just need to learn from them. Make yourself better and make sure your little one doesn't make the same ones." Rukia smiled. "Yes. Thank you, sir."

As the evening went on there was a dance party going on at Grayson's party. The kids were all dancing with the adult superhero's. Grayson was in Oichi's arms as they danced. A few kids got a bit upset and wanted to dance with Oichi to. "Hey bee lady! We wanna dance to!" One called out. Grayson frowned and hugged Oichi. "No! My bee!" Oichi giggled and snuggled him. "Aw your so cute. You can have me all to yourself today okay?" Grayson smiled and giggled. This however didn't stop the other kids from clinging on to Oichi's legs as she carefully danced around them.

Nel snapped pictures. "Gah! She's to good with kids! I'm so not jealous of that skill." Orihime fix Grimmjow a plate. He had taken his helmet off and was sweating a bit. "Isn't that some sort of trait needed if you want to have kids or something." "No! You don't have to be good with kids if you have your own. Who cares about everyone else's kids anyway." Ichigo raised his eyebrow. "Your logic is messed up…" Orihime smiled. "It does make a great quality for a mother." Grimmjow bit into a cupcake. "That's great because I can guarantee my kids are going to have my backbone and a smartass mouth. A good mother should know how to handle that." Ichigo eyes widen at Grimmjow's statement. Nel looked back at him. "Are you still saying that!?" Grimmjow smirked. "Again, you thought I was lying." Ichigo frowned. "Please tell me you aren't talking about what I think your talking about." "Don't worry Berry. This conversation is for adults only." An angry vein popped on Ichigo's head. "Stop calling me that and I am an adult. Don't go slipping false hope in Oichi's heart. She's got enough going on." Grimmjow rolled his eyes. "Chill Berry. I won't say anything about giving her what she wants. There is still a lot of shit we must deal with before all of that. I'm not an idiot you know." Nel huffed out. "Well you sure fooled me…" Grimmjow sent her a glare.

Momo clapped her hands. "Grimmjow, Nel! The cake is ready!" Nel placed her hands on her hips. "Alright Grimmjow time for your ass to get back to work." Grimmjow slurped his juice down and gobbed up his food before letting out a loud burp." "My Gosh your such an animal." Nel says. Grimmjow cleaned his mouth with a napkin. "You damn right. You can ask Oichi for details about that. Then again you should already know." He chuckled as Nel's face went red.

He placed his helmet back on and walked over to the cake. Nel and the others went to get the kids. "Alright kids it's time for cake!" Nel says. The kids smiled. "CAKE!" They yelled out as they ran to the back table. Oichi, still holding Grayson, walked over there with him. There were two cakes. One personal cake for Grayson to mess in and the regular cake for everyone else. Everyone stood around the table. Ichigo and the others held some of the kids so that they could see the cake. Others climbed on Grimmjow. The personal cake had blue beetles face on it with the number one on it. The bigger cake had the same but it had a action figure holding one candle and Grayson's name on it. Nel lit the personal cake and the bigger cake and sat the smaller on in front of Oichi and Grayson. "Now to sing happy birthday!" Momo says.

Grayson claps his hands as everyone sung happy birthday to him. "My birthday!" He says cheesing hard. Nel snapped a picture of him. "So cute! He so gets his smile from me!" She says smiling as hard as him. Oichi chuckled. "Yes, he does." When the singing was done Grayson, with the help of Nel and Oichi, blew out the candles. They laughed when Grayson stuck his tiny hands in the personal cake and stuff handfuls of it in his mouth. Momo and Orihime cut the cake and passed it to the parents who shared with their kids. When the cake was done it was time for gifts. Oichi and Grimmjow sat on the floor while Nel sat on the couch with Grayson on her lap. Ichigo started to pass the gift over to Nel to let Grayson open them. Oichi took over picture duty.

Grayson got many action figures, clothes, books, toys, a new comforter for his bed, a tricycle and many more. Grimmjow took the helmet off and gasps out. 'Damn this shit his hot.' He looked at Oichi who was smiling while she took pictures of Grayson he couldn't help but to smile along with her. Days like these weren't so bad. Sure, he had to spend it with annoying people but every now and then having annoying people around wasn't that bad. They were a good distraction at the least.

Outside, Rukia was opening her last gift. It was a cradle for the baby from Byakuya. She smiled. "Oh wow! Thank you, brother!" From her brother alone Rukia and Renji got a crib, a bouncer, a play mat, strollers, a rocker, lots of stuff bunny animals, clothes, and much more. From her family and friends, she got games, photo albums, a camera, wall items, and others. "These are all so amazing! Thank you all so much for the gifts." She smiled holding on of Byakuya's stuff bunny gift. Renji smiled and kissed her cheek. "I'm glad you are enjoying yourself babe." Rukia leans on him. "Yes, this is mostly perfect. Thank you for doing this Renji. I know this has been hard on you as well." Renji chuckled. "Nothing I can't handle you know." He got up. "Well I'm going to start taking some of these things to the car. Stay off your feet and relax. The girls are getting some games started. Rukia nodded and kissed his cheek.

Renji grabbed the stroller and crib boxes and started to drag them to the back door. He pushed the large boxes in and closed the door behind him. As he dragged them to the front door he could hear the music going on in the room. He could hear the kids laughing and screaming. He shook his head. "I guess that is something I'll have to look forward to." He heads to the front door.

In the room, Nel was letting Grayson open some of his toys. Most of the parents were getting ready to leave but not before asking Grimmjow to come perform for their kids birthday. He denied them saying he didn't have time for their kids but Oichi took their numbers down anyways. She figured incase he had trouble looking for a job at least this would be a nice little gig for him to have. Nel came over with Grayson. "Oichi! Oichi look!" Nel said with hearts in her eyes. "Look at what Nel?" She looked down at Grayson. He had crumbs on his face from eating. He smiled at held his arms up to be picked up. "Auntie!" He says with a huge grin. Oichi felt a throb in her heart and hearts filled her eyes. She picked him up and snuggled him. "You called me auntie! So cute! To cute!" She squeals. Grayson laughed as he enjoyed his snuggles. Grimmjow smiled but on the inside, he wanted to be snuggled by Oichi to.

Rangiku got up and stretched. "That was more fun then I thought it would be. I guess I should go out and say hi to Rukia before I get going." She headed out. Over in the corner Tatsuki was taking to Ichigo and Orihime while they cleaned. Keigo had already left with most of their friends since they had to work. "You guys…there is something I wanted to speak to you about." "What's up Tatsuki?" Ichigo asked. "Yeah you know you can tell us anything." Tatsuki smiled and rubbed her head. "Yeah I know that's why I wanted you two to be the first to know." She looked down with a nervous glance. "Tatsuki?" Tatsuki looked at them. "Me and Ishida are dating now." Ichigo and Orihime simply looked at her with a blank expression as they processed this. It was Ichigo who reacted first. "Huh!? What do you mean by that?" Tatsuki blushed. "Don't ask a dumb question Ichigo. You know what I mean. We are dating!" "I get that but why that guy!? I didn't even know he was into girls!" Tatsuki smacked him on the back of the head. "Don't be a idiot! Of course, he is into girls but a guy like you wouldn't be able to notice the weird love vibes going on between this group!" "Love vibes?" Ichigo asked in a confused tone. Tatsuki face palmed herself. "Ugh I figured Orihime would be the only I'd have to explain this to. Though it's not a serious thing. Back in high school everyone was crushing on someone. Oichi crushed on Renji, Renji crushed on Rukia, you crushed on Oichi, Orihime crushed on you, Ishida crushed on Orihime…Until a few months ago that's what was going on. A darn love vibe between us! Now that everyone is going differently it looks like Ishida figured he would never be able to get Orihime so…I thought it would be a good idea for us to get to know each other better and then things happened you know." Ichigo rubbed his head. "Wow…I never really noticed that. I guess your right though. Congratulations on that."

Orihime was frowning. "Orihime? You don't approve?" Tatsuki said with a sad tone. Snapping out her thoughts Orihime waved her hands in a panic motion. "What!? Oh no! Nothing like that Tatsuki! I'm super happy that you found someone, and I wish the best for you and your future!" Tatsuki smiled and hugged her. "Thank you Orihime. That means a lot." Pulling away Orihime was frowning again. "Orihime what's wrong?" Ichigo asked. "Renji had a crush on Rukia in school?" Tatsuki crossed her arms. "Yeah, a lot of people saw that. Specially the way they flirted. Most of the people who need them the longest had always said they were close. That's why it was so shocking when Renji started dating Oichi." Ichigo frowned. "That doesn't make sense. Rukia was the one that pushed Renji into dating Oichi. If she liked Renji why would she do that?" Tatsuki shrugs. "Maybe they weren't that close to begin with and she wanted those rumors to stop flying all over the school? Who knows." Ichigo looks over to Oichi who was talking with another parent. 'Something doesn't seem right about that…'

It was getting late into the evening and Renji was on the last item to bring to the car. Most of the people from the shower had left. Rukia was enjoying the nice wind that had came with the evening weather. Rangiku had come to say hi to her before leaving since she did skip out on work. It made Rukia feel a bit better seeing her.

Renji was carrying the rest of the stuff animals to the car when he saw the door to Grayson's party open. Oichi walked out in her outfit. Renji's eyes widen as he dropped the animals. Oichi was closing the door when she noticed Renji staring at her. She frowned. "What?" Renji looked her up and down. "You…It's just that outfit doesn't fit you. You hate showing skin." Oichi rolled her eyes. "Uh huh." She turned off and headed towards the kitchen. Renji quickly gathered the bunnies and followed her. Due to the off meeting, Oichi had accidently left the door cracked. Grayson peaked his head out the door and pushed it open. "Auntie?" He pouted and walked out the door looking around. "Mmmff…auntie…" He says heading to the kitchen.

In the kitchen Oichi was grabbing some drinks for the others. Now with the kids gone Nel wanted some real drinks for the adults. Renji couldn't take his eyes off her. He gulps looked at her body something inside him started to stir. Oichi took out a large jar of punch. She sniffled it and almost gagged. It seems like Nel had made a nice spiked drink for them after the party. "Jeez Nel you trying to kill someone?" She asked as she placed the jar on the table and turned to see Renji still looking at her.

"Stop staring at me. Don't you have something to do?" She asked with a frown. "Oh yeah…it's just wow. This is better then you wearing that batgirl stuff." Oichi turned from him. "Good bye Renji." Renji frowned and dropped the stuff toys. He quickly blocked off Oichi's way almost making her spill the jar. "What the hell!? Move!" She says. "Will you just wait a second. I just want to talk right quick." "No, you just want to look at what you can't have anymore! Don't you have a pregnant fiancée to get back to!" She moved to the left to walk by him, but he blocked her way. "Just hear me out please." Oichi frowned. "I said no Renji! Whatever comes out your mouth is nothing but lies! I don't want to hear anything you have to say anymore!" She went to the right and quickly got away from him but Renji grabbed her arm. "Oichi don't walk away from me please." Oichi snatched away from him and smacked him. She then took the jar of punch and splashed it in his face. "Don't you dare touch me you ass!" Renji felt some sort of heat rising inside him. Something he hasn't felt in a while. Before he could stop himself, he grabbed Oichi and forced a kiss on her. Oichi's eyes widen as she tried pushing away from him. Renji held her tighter. Something about her resisting him only made that heat rise. Oichi grabbed his face and pushed his head away. "Stop! Renji get off me!" She yelled. She raised the jar to slammed it on his head but he knocked it away.

He then pushed her up against the wall forcefully. Pinning her arms above her head. He quickly attacked the spot under her neck. Oichi bit her lip holding in a moan. His free hand rubbed up her soft skin and he grabbed her breast, squeezing it. Oichi struggled to get away. His hand then started to trail down her side and it went around to her back grabbing her butt. Oichi gasped out and tried to at least kick him but he pinned his body up against her to where she couldn't move.

A scent of honey reached his nose. 'She's always had a smell on honey around her. I loved that smell.' Oichi could feel something hard rubbing against her. She bit her lip as a disgusted feeling came over her. She got one of her hands lose. "Get the fuck off me!" She pushed and hit Renji as much as she could. In the back of his mind he knew this was wrong, but it was something about Oichi resisting him that made this such a turn on. She's always been so submissive to him and it made things a bit boring. Sure, it was cute in the beginning but every now and then it would have been an amazing sight to see her resist him, fight back, not give in to all his needs, hell even take charge and dominated him.

With his free hand he grabbed Oichi's hand and pins it back up with the other, holding her wrist with one hand once more. "Mmm…your really sexy in the outfit." He reached down to her pants. "I missed being inside you. Did you miss me?" "No! Get off me! Renji stop this!" Oichi says as a fear ran up her body. "GRIM…." Before she could get his name out Renji slammed a kiss on her. Forcing his tongue between her lip, silencing her. She couldn't believe this was happening. She would have never taken Renji to have forced himself on a person like this!? Tears came to the corners of her eyes. Why was he doing this! Renji started to unbuckle her belt and pull her pants down to her knees. 'Grimmjow…help…'

He was going for her panties until they heard a scream. "Noooo!" Renji broke the kiss. They turned their heads to see Grayson running at them with an angry face! "NOOO!" He yelled out again loudly. He ran up to Renji and started to hit his leg. "My Auntie! Mine! Bad Man! BAD MAN!" He then bit Renji's leg making Renji let go. "Fuck! You little…" Grayson stood in front of Oichi with his arms outstretch. "NO TOUCH!" "Grayson…" Oichi says as she slid to the floor. Renji glared down at him. Grayson tears up and shakes but he doesn't move. "M-my Auntie!" He says. Renji looked at Oichi before coming back to his senses but he didn't feel as bad as he thought he would be. In fact, he really wanted to see how far he could push this. He smirked and chuckled making both Oichi and Grayson jump. Grayson whimpered but he still didn't move.

Renji looked at Oichi as a lustful look came over his eyes. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Oichi asked backing up to the wall. "Maybe I made a mistake…maybe this is what we needed in our relationship." "What!?" "If it was more like this then maybe…just maybe…" Oichi's heart was racing. "Are you crazy!?" "For you, I think I still am." Renji says licking his lips. Grayson suddenly busted into tears and with a loud voice he screamed out. "DADDY!"

His loud voice rings out the house bring the clean up to a complete stop. The door was quickly slammed open and Grimmjow was the first to run out the room with Nel and the others behind him. Outside, Rukia was a bit concerned about why Renji was taking so long. Just has she had opened the door she heard Grayson screaming out. Worried she followed the sound. Behind her Jushiro also followed. He had wanted to speak to Oichi about the upcoming meeting.

Oichi and Renji were both shocked at how loud Grayson was. 'So…loud…something he must have also gotten from Nel…' Oichi says. "Grayson!" Oichi turned to see Grimmjow running toward them. It wasn't until Grimmjow saw Oichi and the state she was in and Renji's flustered look and the noticeable hard on in his pants, that rage rushed to his head. "You fucker!" He ran straight for Renji and punched him right in the face. Renji fell back but Grimmjow grabbed his shirt and held up before punching him again and again. "What the fuck were you trying to pull! I'll kill you for touching her!" The three punches in already had given Renji a broken and bloody nose.

Ichigo and Chad rushed to Grimmjow and grabbed him. Pulling him off Renji. "Wait idiot! You can't kill him!" Grimmjow struggled from Ichigo and Chad's grip. "Yes, I can! Just give me 10 seconds and I'll make his fucking head roll!" Nel and Orihime went to Oichi's side. "Oichi, hun! Are you okay! Did that bastard hurt you!" Oichi couldn't answered that. Nel looked down to see her pants undone and pulled down. Anger filled her entire body as she looked at Renji, who was holding his nose. "What the hell is wrong with you, you sick freak!"

"W-What's going on here?" They turned back to see Rukia. Renji, who sitting on the floor, looked at Rukia. "Renji!? What happened? Why are you bleeding?" She looked at Oichi as Orihime tried to help straighten her clothes back up. She frowned. "Oichi…" "Oh dear…it seems like something terrible has happened." They turned to see Jushiro walking up. It didn't take him long to figure out what had happen. Momo and Hisagi came rushing out. "Hey is Grayson okay?" Momo asked she then gasped at what was going on. "What is going on!?" Hisagi frowned and looked at Renji. "Seriously Renji… haven't you caused enough pain and damage already."

Rukia frowned. "How can you blame this all on Renji? Oichi is in on this to!" Nel growled under her breath. "Bitch…do you see Oichi? We sure as hell can blame this on him! He clearly forced himself on her! Do you think we are stupid!" Rukia looked down. "Renji would never." "Bad man!" Grayson says pointing at Renji. "Made Auntie cry! Hurt Auntie! I help!" She turns around and hugs Oichi's legs. "I save! Hero Beetle!" Oichi smiles a bit at him.

Renji got up and staggered a bit. "Rukia…we are leaving." "What? But my brother and the others are still here." "I said we are leaving!" Renji says rising his voice at her. It made Rukia jump a bit. Renji glanced at Oichi who avoided his look. Grimmjow was glaring daggers at him. "Keep walking you fucking pig. If I catch your ass in the street then your mine." He said with a dark and deadly look in his eyes. Renji gulps and heads to the door. Rukia walked pasted them and also glanced at Oichi. "You asked me to stay away so now I'm asking…stay away from us…" Nel's eyes widen. "What the…" Oichi grabbed Nel's arm and shook her head. Nel bit her lip as Rukia left along with Renji.

When things settle down, Oichi was sitting in the living room by herself while the other went back to clean to the party and the shower. Jushiro had told the others that Rukia wasn't feeling well and Renji took her home. Of course, Byakuya didn't look like he brought it but nodded as if he did. It didn't help his thoughts when he saw Oichi. The situation didn't read right, and he didn't like it when he couldn't read the situation clearly. He was going to get his answers, one way or another.

In the living room, Oichi was rubbing her fingers together. She couldn't believe that Renji would have gone that far. She held her arms. Honestly if he would have done that months ago she would have happily accepted that. If he would have told her that he made a mistake and wanted her back she would have not heisted in jumping back into his arms and repairing the damage between him but now…now she was getting her life in a somewhat basic order. For him to do that to her now, all she could feel was complete disgust.

The kiss she used to love so much from him make her sick to her stomach. The way he would feel so warm when he wrapped his arms around her made cold chills run up and down her spine. The way he spoke to her that made goosebumps appear all over her body gave her an unsteadying vibe. There was no way she would go back to him like that. Not now or ever.

"Auntie!" Oichi snapped out of her thoughts. She felt water running down her face. She didn't even realize she was crying. She looked to see Grayson and Grimmjow standing in front of her. She wiped her face. "Hi you two. Did you finish cleaning?" Grayson walked up to her and hugged her leg. "I saved. I hero?" Oichi smiled and picked him up. She hugged him tightly. "Yeah. You saved me. You're my hero beetle. Thank you." Grimmjow sat down beside her and wrapped his arm around her making her jump a little. "S-Sorry…"

"Nothing to be sorry about babe. It's normal to be uncomfortable after something like that happened." He pulled her close to him. "I would have killed him if he went any further then that." Oichi leans on him. "Thank you for coming." Grimmjow kissed her forehead. "I'll come for you and protect you as many times as I have to." Grayson popped up. "I did good?" Grimmjow smiled and rubbed Grayson's head. "You did really good at protecting her." Grayson smiled. "Yes! I save Auntie!" Oichi smiled. "Yes, you did." Grimmjow chuckled and then smirked. "You would make a good big brother." Oichi gave him a confused looked. "Bro?" Grayson says. "Do you want a little sister or brother?" Grayson eyes widen. He then wiggled from Oichi's lap. "Mama! Baby!" He says in an excited tone.

Oichi frowned. "It's not nice to pick on Nel like that. She swore off children after having Grayson." Grimmjow laughed. "Wasn't talking about Nel babe." He placed a hand on her knee. It took a second before Oichi's face went red. "N-No No! Don't say something like that!?" She cupped her face. "There is no way we can have children right now! Wait…why on earth would you say that?" "Don't you want kids?" "I do but…there is so much to do and plus I thought…well…isn't bringing up children like a long-term couple thing? It's been only months since we started dating and I didn't want to scare you off with having thoughts like that. It wouldn't be fair to you and knowing that you…" Grimmjow grabbed her face and turned it towards her. "Your blabbing again." He kissed her.

It gave her the warm fuzzies all inside. He backed away. "You should know by now how I truly feel about you. I gave up my entire life just to start over with you. I'm not even mad. I'm more…excited to see the future we can create or destroy together. That does mean that I am ready to give you more kids if you want but I ain't going over seven." Oichi blushed madly. "S-Seven!? I mean I thought four would be enough." Grimmjow chuckled. "Then maybe I'm more excited then you to have kids." Oichi pouted and then shook her head. She leans on his chest. "You're an idiot…but thank you. Its not something that I was rushing into. It's just been something I've wanted for a long time. Having a family of my own. Giving them things, I couldn't have and so on." Grimmjow nodded. "I get it. It's your final goal in life so it seems. Once things cool down we can talk about that more." Oichi nodded. "I didn't think it would be so easy to talk to you about this." Grimmjow rubbed his head. "Having kids aren't so bad. Leaving something behind on this word. Or leaving them a legacy for them to build upon. It's not a bad idea really. I'm sure when we have kids one of them is going to be famous and get freaking rich. We would have great excuses to start blowing their money." Oichi giggled. "Oh yeah? Which would be?" "We birth and raised you fucker." Oichi laughed. "So typical. Careful they might reject you and only spoil me." Grimmjow frowned. "A bunch of lies. I'm a great dad and role model. That fucker better spoil me to dammit." Oichi laughed again.

"It's nice to finally hear some laughter from you." Grimmjow and Oichi looked to see Jushiro. "Mr. Ukitake…" Oichi says sitting up. Jushiro smiled and sat down. "So formal even outside of work. I like that but it's okay. Jushiro is just fine." "I see. So, is there anything can help you with?" Oichi asked. "I just wanted to know how you were doing. You have been through quite a lot." "Yeah all because of you and your dumbass people." Grimmjow says. Oichi tapped his leg. "Stop it. I'm doing well Sir. Things have been tight and crazy around here, but I have good support from my friends and family and Grimmjow to. It's been a hard road to ride on but it's thanks to them I can keep going." Jushiro smiled. "I see. I'm glad that you are still so head strong even after everything that has happened. Your truly good hearted to. I look forward in what you can do in the future." He got up. "The café is truly blessed to have a person like you in charge. I'm sure you will be able to bounce up from anything that comes at you." Grimmjow frowned at that last statement.

Oichi waved good bye. "He is really nice you know." "Oichi do you remembered when we talked about how Aizen might fuck us both over?" Oichi nodded. "This might be the time to prepare for that." "What do you mean?" "Just in case…be prepare for some bad news. Don't let them see how it affects you no matter what the news is okay?" Oichi nodded. "I will try. Though I'm not sure why they could possibly try something with me. Other than the café and being involved with you I don't really pose a threat to anyone." Grimmjow rubbed her leg. "It's because you're with me. Simple fact. Aizen likes fucking with people minds. The best way to beat him is to not show him fear and whatever the hell they make you do make sure you do it with your head held high okay?" Oichi nodded. "Okay." Grimmjow sighed and kissed her forehead. "You say Okay like you're going to do it but I have no choice but to believe those sweet little lies huh." Oichi pouted. "I'm not lying." She mumbled to herself.

It was soon night time. At the hotel Grayson was with Oichi and Grimmjow. He was past out in the middle of the bed with a blue beetle plusie that Oichi hand made herself. In the bathroom, Grimmjow and Oichi were taking a very steamy hot shower.

Grimmjow had her up against the shower wall as he ruthlessly thrusted inside her. Oichi was clinging to him, trying to keep her voice down. Grimmjow grunted as he she moaned softly in his ear. "Let your voice out more." He growled. "N-No ah…Grayson might wake up mmhh…" Grimmjow licked her neck. "He's a heavy sleeper like his mom remember. We tested that out weeks ago you slutty vixen." Grimmjow felt her tighten around him making him chuckle. "You love it when I talk like that huh. Damn you are to sexy for your own good." "S-Shut up and kiss me idiot."

On the 18th at 3a.m Oichi and Grayson were sleeping peacefully in bed. Grimmjow was outside on the balcony smoking. He frowned as he blew out smoke. "Now what Grimmjow. You got the girl at the cost of your job and lively hood…what's next?" He started to weigh his choices. Oichi's old man did offer him a job if he couldn't find anything but he didn't want to risk that. She might not have known it but her old man was famous down in the underworld scene. There wasn't to many crocks who didn't know his name and those who did weren't stupid enough to try anything funny. Grimmjow rubbed his head. Knowing her father, he might want Grimmjow as another clean up crew and he didn't want to hop back into that so soon. Before he started working for Aizen he did work in construction and with his knowledge of a few business techniques it shouldn't take him long to get to the top of that job. He just needed something. He turns back to see Oichi and Grayson. A smile came to his face. He smoked the last bit of his cigarette and tossed it in the ash tray. He blew out a long line of smoke before walking back inside.

He stripped down to his underwear and climbed into bed. He wrapped his arm around both Grayson and Oichi. Having a family like this wouldn't be so bad. Come home and being welcome by his girl with a nice hot dinner waiting on the table. Spending the evening talking about random things. Cuddling into the night watching some lame movie until it was time for the sexy things. Then passing out into each other arms only to wake and see each other face. Grimmjow chuckled to himself. 'Man I'm becoming cheesy as hell these days.'

Over at Renji and Rukia's. Renji was sitting in the living room in only a pair of sweatpants. His hair was down and had lost its spikiness and his nose had a bandage on it. He was doing some last-minute paperwork. Rukia was upstairs passed out. They had a bad argument about what really happened at Momo's. Of course, he wouldn't tell her all the details, but he allowed her to vent out her frustrations and anger at him. It was the quickest way for her to settle down. After that he held her until she ended up passing out.

Renji stopped working and placed his hand on his head. He truly was an idiot. He pretty much forced himself on Oichi today and he liked it. The look of flustered fear, her body tensing up. Renji sits back as he remembered touching her skin one more time. Kissing though soft lips, smelling the hint of honey. Renji grunts and looked down to see his friend wake up. "Ugh…you got to be kidding me." He runs his hand through his hair. "I have to calm down. I can't do this right now. I have a child coming and planning for a wedding. I blocked all these feelings out when I decided to be with Rukia. I want to be with Rukia not Oichi. Even if I miss the way her hips swing when she was in a happy mood. Then that cute way she giggles to herself when she's trying not to bother me with work. Haha…I also missed those massages." He rubbed his shoulder. "Those really helped out on days like this." He chuckled as he started to remember various things about his time with Oichi. On the stairs Rukia was standing there listening to his every word. She gripped her dress and hung her head low. She held back the tears and went back upstairs alone. 'I should have known this wasn't going to be easy.'

Around 8am, Grimmjow started to stir to an amazing smell. He sat up and reached out to feel an empty spot. He turned and growled under his breath. Oichi knew he hated waking up to an empty bed. He threw off the blankets and walked out to the kitchen. When he opened the door, a sweet smell hit his face like a box of bricks. "Daddy! Daddy's up!" He looked to see Grayson with his cheeks full of pancakes. "Mmm! Daddy eat!" He says spitting food out his mouth.

Oichi rubbed his head. She was wearing her uniform. "No talking with your mouth food." She cleaned his mouth. "Good morning Grimmjow. Want some breakfast. You have to be at the court house at 3pm." Grimmjow sat down. "I thought you had the day off." Oichi placed a plate in front of him. It had pancakes, grits, bacon, and eggs on it with a side of toast. Oichi frowned. "Rukia called out so I'm taking her shift and I just got told there is an important meeting that's being called at 3…" Grimmjow frowned. "Of all the days to…I wanted to be there with you at the court house. It's killing me not knowing what's going to happen…" She griped her uniform tightly. "I asked if there was any way for the meeting to be moved up or maybe placed at another day or even if someone could take notes for me but…" Grimmjow ate a pancake. "No sweat babe. Go head to this meeting. Whatever happens I'm sure Demorest is going to let you know first." Oichi gave him a sad look. "If Demorest calls me then that means it bad…" Grimmjow cursed at himself mentally. He didn't mean to make her sad. "Nothing bad is going to happen babe. You gotta keep that cute positively attitude high up in the air okay. I'll see you when you get back okay?" Oichi smiled and nodded. "Food! More peas!" Oichi giggled. "Are you asking for more?" Grayson held his spoon up. "Peas!" "He has so much energy. He gets that from Nel." She walked over to the counter to get a cup of coffee. "Ugh. Don't remind me. I hope our kids aren't as excited." Oichi blushed. "A-Are you still going on about that." Grimmjow chuckled. "I'd like to see how you are in that whole pregnant stage. I think Nel was the worst…her anger issues went through the damn roof at times and then the food she ate. I almost swore off food for life." Oichi laughed as she walked over to him with a cup of coffee. "It's like that sometimes apparently. When my mom had my sister, she ate 12 jars of pickles with mustard, mayo, and a porkchop." Grimmjow gave her a disgusted look.

She placed the cup of the coffee beside his plate. "Cravings aren't no joke you know. If I do get pregnant I hope I get a craving of seafood. Crab, lobster, shrimp, oysters, more shrimp…a lot of shrimp." Oichi says licking her lips. Grimmjow chuckled. "You seafood nut."

"HeeHee." She kissed his forehead. "I need to get to work. Momo is picking me up and you said Ichigo is coming to get you and take you to the court house, right? I don't want you to be late." "Yeah, you taking Gray with you?" Oichi nodded. "Good maybe I can get some more sleep in."

Oichi's phone vibrated on the table. "Auntie! Ring ring!" Oichi smiled. "I'm so happy to hear him call me auntie. It's too cute." She grabbed her phone and answered it. "Hello?" "Oichi!? I'm here!" Momo's voice rings out on the phone. "You're a bit early, aren't you?" "I couldn't help it. I have the car seat in the back." "Thanks, Momo. We will be down in a second." She hangs up. "Okay Grayson it's time to go to work." Grayson pouted. "No!" Oichi frowned. "No?" Grayson crossed his arms. "No!" Grimmjow frowned. "You want to stay here with me?" Grayson's eyes sparkled. "Yes! We play!" Grimmjow chuckled and ruffled his head. "I'll drop him off before I go to court." Oichi sighed. "Okay…I'll let Nel go." Grayson studied Oichi's sadden face for a bit.

Oichi walked over to Grimmjow. They shared a kiss. "See you when I get back." He says smirking. Oichi smiles and ruffles his hair. "Yeah, we can have a nice dinner tonight." She walks to Grayson and rubs his head but doesn't give him a kiss on the cheek or snuggle him like she usually does. "Have fun with your daddy Grayson." She smiles at him before grabbing her purse and leaving. Grayson pouts and looks down at his food. Grimmjow sips on his coffee. "Don't pout now. You hurt her feelings."

Oichi rides the elevator down and sighs before she heard her phone ring. She grabbed it and frowned. It was Rukia calling her. She answered. "Yes, Rukia?" There was silence on the other end. "Hello? Rukia? Are you there?" 'I swear to all things fluffy and blue she had better not butt dialed me when she and Renji are…' "Oichi?" Oichi felt a sicken feeling coming over her. "Renji!?" "H-Hey. Look I want to talk to about what hap…" Oichi quickly hung up on him. Her heart was pounding, and she shock slightly. She was unsure if it was because of fear or anger. 'The nerve of that man after what he did…' She walked out of the elevator and headed towards the doors. She headed to the car where Momo was. In the front seat next to her was Hisagi. "Hisagi?" Hisagi got out with a smile. "Morning Oichi. Where is Grayson?" He then studied her. "Are you okay? You look a bit shaken up." Oichi looked away from him. "I'm fine and Grayson wanted to stay with Grimmjow. What are you doing in the car?" "I wanted to see how you were holding up after yesterday…so I tagged along for the day and since Grimmjow is no longer the head of security at the café I figured I'd help you out today." Oichi looked back up at him and smiled. "Thanks, so much Hisagi!" Hisagi nodded and let her take the front seat. He climbed in the back and Momo drove off before allowing them to put their seat belt on.

Reaching the café Momo pulled in and parked. Oichi got out with a slight frown on her face. "Nice driving as always Momo…" She says rubbed her head. Momo laughed. "Sorry about that. I guess I am just to excited today." Oichi looked at Momo and smirked. "Your glowing Momo. You must have gotten lucky haha." Momo blushed. "We can talk about that later. I promise." Oichi chuckled. "Yes, I know. Nel and Rangiku are not going to let this go."

Oichi heard her phone ring. She grabbed it and looked at it too see Rukia's number. She didn't want to answer it but at the same time she didn't want to risk if it was Rukia. She answered but didn't say anything. "Oichi! Please don't hang up! I really need to talk to about yesterday!" Oichi bit her lip. She didn't want to hear anything he had to say to her. "W-What you did was out of line. I don't ever want you to call me again." She hung up the phone and looked at the ground. She gripped her fist. 'Stupid Renji…' She felt Momo grab her hand. She looked at her. "It's okay Oichi. I know your feeling down but for now let's put our game faces on yeah? I'll even give you the inside scoop." Oichi smiles. "Thanks, Momo…" She also felt a pat on her head from Hisagi. "He is an idiot who don't understand the meaning of what he did. Forget about him." Oichi nodded. "Yeah…thank you."

They went to front doors of the store. "What do you think this meeting is going to be about?" Momo asked. "Who knows. Maybe expanding or getting some new equipment. That would be nice and it would make things easier. I kind of wish Mr. Ukitake would have told me about the meeting when he was talking to me at the party." Momo shrugs. "He might have forgotten." "It's not good to forget something so important like that." Oichi says as she walked in. She looked around the store. She loved opening. She could enjoy a nice two hours to herself before they opened at 11. Usually when she opened by herself she had her music blasting." She then blushed. Sometimes Grimmjow snuck in and they had a little alone time in her office. She gasp. 'Oh no! What if that's what the meeting about? Oh man…' Then again, she's not the only one who's been enjoying herself. There are plenty of times when she's caught her employee's sneaking off into the bathroom, outside, in the employee's lounge and even in the parking lot. Of course, not being a stranger to this she simply gave them a warning and asked them to at least do it away from the cameras. She rubbed her cheeks. 'Goodness…what kind of place am I running here.'

1pm came and the café was up and running as usual. There was talk of what the meeting was going to be about. Some where scared and some were excited. Downstairs Luppi was talking loudly and a bit boastfully.

"I heard from one of the top brains that someone was going to be losing their job today! I wonder who haha!" The other workers rolled their eyes. "We hope it's you…" One of them mumbled. "Could you see Luppi running this place or getting something higher then a store GM? Ughh! I would quit right then and there." "Ditto. It bad enough that we have to deal with him as a manger now but if he was the head boss I don't think his ego could get any bigger." "Ha! To late for that…" Luppi ignored them as he went on and on about something no one cared about.

Upstairs Oichi had brought a plate of snacks for Hisagi. One of the workers passing by chuckled. "Careful Hisagi. The last man sitting there got suckered in by our charming manager. You might be next." Oichi blushed slightly. "Oh, hush up and get to work." Hisagi chuckled. "I wouldn't mind being charmed by you." "H-Hisagi don't say that. They might take you seriously around here and then I'll never hear the end of it." He chuckled. "I wasn't joking." Oichi shook her head and quickly walked away. Hisagi smirked as he ate.

Just then they heard yelling from down stairs. Oichi sighed. "What now…" She walked down the stairs with Hisagi following her.

"I'm so sick of your shit! How about you do everyone a favor and just fuck off!" Oichi saw Nel glaring daggers at Luppi. "I'm just saying the truth Nel." "No, you are telling everyone nothing but your crap! Not everyone is an ass kisser like you?" "What is going on?" Oichi asked. They looked at her. Luppi smirked. "I was just giving everyone the four one one of what's going to happen at the meeting. I'm personally in with the big boss upstairs and I heard that one of the managers will be getting f-i-r-e-d and I think it will be y-o-u." He says pointing at Oichi. Nel frowned. "No one is listening to your bull you ass clown!" "Nel…" They looked at Oichi. "I don't know what is going to happen at this meeting. I don't know who might be getting fired or if we are getting new workers or what. However, what I do know is that we need to be working at our hardest right now. What happens at the meeting happens and if one of us should lose our jobs I would hope that every person in here will support them and encourage them in the next chapter of their life. Now with that said I would like to hear no more talk of the meeting until the time comes understand." Everyone nodded.

Luppi chuckled. "My what bold lasting words." Oichi narrowed her eyes at him, quickly shutting him up. Nel chuckled as the door opened. "Mama! I here!" Grayson yelled out. He was wearing a cute blue jumpsuit and a white shirt with a teddy bear on the front and black shoes. He had a cupcake in his hand and his mouth had crumbs all over as he marched to her. Nel smiled. "Hi my little muffin cup!" Nel picked him up and snuggled him making him laugh.

Grimmjow and Ichigo walked in with a few bags in their hands. Oichi watched Nel snuggle Grayson. Without her knowledge she reached for her stomach and sighed before heading back upstairs. Grimmjow and Ichigo noticed this along with a few other employee's. Suddenly Grimmjow felt eyes on him. He rolled his eyes. "Oh shut up." He says heading upstairs. "Daddy! I go?" Grayson says trying to wiggle out of Nel's grip. "Sure. Nel put him down jeez. He gets enough of your boobs and Oichi's boobs to make a grown man jealous." Nel frowned. "Buzz off! He's my son and if I wanna snuggle him I will snuggle him!" Grayson giggled. "Down mama Down!" Nel sighed. "Fine, fine…" She put him down and he ran over to Grimmjow. He reached down to pick him up but his hand was pushed away. "I can do!" Grayson says making the female employees go googly eyes. "Aw so cute!" They said. Grimmjow sighed and took a step up the stairs. Grayson grabbed on to his pants leg and step on the steps as well. They went on until they were about three steps from the floor.

A waiter was walking by when he saw this. "Hey boss lady come here for a second!" He yelled as he chuckled. Oichi had just finished taking an order when she walked to the stairs. Her eyes sparkled as she watched Grayson walk up the stairs. "Aw! Arent you the cutest!" Grayson looked up and smiled. "Auntie! Lookie!" He took a step up the stairs by himself. Oichi clapped. "Good job!" Grayson took his last step and jump up. "Yay!" Oichi threw her hands up as well. "Yay! You climbed the stairs!" "I did it! I did it!" Grayson bounced to her and hugged her leg. Oichi giggled and picked him. "You did it! Want a cookie!?" Grayson gasp. "Cookie!" Oichi laughed and snuggled him. "You can have as many cookies you want! Such a good baby!"

Grimmjow chuckled. "I came to cheer you up but it seems like I don't need to worry about that." "Cheer me up? I'm just fine." "Sure you are. Come here." He wrapped an arm around her and gave her a kiss. Oichi heard a click. She backed up to see one of the employees snapping a picture. She blushed. "Don't take pictures of me!" The employees laughed at her flustered face. Grimmjow chuckled. "I got you some things before I head to the court house." "What kind of things?" Grimmjow smirked. "Never mind! I don't want to know." She says taking the bags. "Just don't be late okay. I'll be there as soon as I can after the meeting." Grimmjow kissed her forehead. "I want a nice steak dinner tonight with a side of green beans, mash potato's. For dessert I want strawberry short cake. Oh and let's spice it up with some red wine tonight." Oichi giggled. "Okay. Just for tonight I'll fix you whatever you would like." Grimmjow licked his lips. "I hope you are on the menu as well." "N-Not at work please!" Oichi squeaks out as some of the customers chuckled.

"Grimmjow! Get your ass down here so we can go!" Ichigo yelled. Grimmjow kisses Oichi one more time. "See ya later babe." He ruffled Grayson's head. "See ya squirt. "Bye daddy!" Grayson says waving. Oichi watched him go. She sighed mentally as she felt a weird sinking feeling in her gut. Was he really going to be okay?

At Renji's and Rukia's, Rukia was laying in the bed sniffing. She couldn't get the image out her head and the words Renji was saying as he recalled his time with Oichi. She looked at the ring on her finger. 'Was this really a mistake…' She sat up and rubbed her face. "No…I know this is just a small phase. They were together for a long time so of course he would have this. Oichi did the same and still does from time to time. She moved on with Grimmjow. It's now just…Renji's time. I just need to hold out until then." She rubbed her belly. "Now then…it's time for the meeting. I wonder what could be going on now."

When 3pm rolled around the café was temporality closed. All the employee's and managers were sitting upstairs. Grayson was relaxing on Oichi's lap sipping some juice. They were waiting on the higher ups to get there. Nel, sitting next to Oichi, was tapping her foot. "Oh come on! If they were going to be late we could have rescheduled or something! People got shit to do here." Grayson gasp and covered his mouth with one hand. "Bad word." He mumbled. Nel smiled. "Sorry sweetheart."

Momo looked down the stairs and smiled slightly. "Here they come." She went and took her seat in front of Nel. "About freaking time…" Nel says.

Jushiro, Shunsui, Nanao, Gin, and Starrk walked up. Starrk yawned loudly and took a seat at the booth. He placed his head down. "Wake me when it's over." Lilynette growled and threw a cup at his head. "You lazy bum! Don't go to sleep when you just got here!" Jushiro smiled at everyone. "Good day to you all! I'm glad you all showed up." He looked at the back to see Rukia sitting by herself. Shunsui walked beside him. "This won't be long. We do have a place to run. We want to first congratulate you all for making this café a success. We have gotten great reviews and a lot of compliments on how all the employees are working together greatly. This has given us a large step into making more mix business. As for all of your hard work we are happy to announce that you all will be getting a nice raise."

The employee's eyes widen and then they looked at each other before busting out into a cheer. Gin chuckled. "Why don't you two move on with the other news." Nanao frowned as she pushed her glasses up. She looked down with an unassured look in her eyes. Nel frowned at this and glanced over at Luppi who was grinning. 'That fucker…'

Jushiro and Shunsui looked at each other before nodding. "While…that news is great this next bit of news might come to as a shock and before anyone says anything we want you to know that this has also been a bit troublesome to do." Jushiro looked at Oichi. "Ms. Yamamoto. You have done an excellent job of running this café. You have provided amazing service and have gone up and beyond for your workers. You are a fine hard worker and we are happy to have gotten the chance to see that up close." Oichi held her breath slightly as her grip tighten around Grayson. "However, in light of resent events…I must sadly inform you that your service here is no longer required."

There was silence in the room. Some workers had a baffle look on their face. Others had shocked. Nel had anger and Momo eyes were just wide. To Oichi it didn't take her a moment to process this. Grimmjow had said that there would have been a possibly that something could happen. She expected to be demoted or work at a different store. Not being fired all together. She looked down as she held her tears back. "…I see…may I asked why I am being relived of my position?" Gin chuckled. "Why of course dear girl. It's due to your involvement with Grimmjow. Say this little café does get famous. It will hurt us if they found out that our hand pick manager was seeing a criminal such as Grimmjow. We can not allow that. Not at all."

Nel stood up and slammed her hands on the table. "You are full of shit! Your telling me because she's dating Grimmjow she can't work here! It ain't like he come here every damn day and Oichi doesn't even flaunt her relationship with him like some fucking people in this room!" Momo also stood up. "I agree! It's not fair! You cannot just come in here and give her praises only to fire her! If she has been doing such an amazing job why does it matters who's she's dating!" Kira stood up as well. "Sir, is there any way you can at least give her a spot in the café? To fire her will surely hurt the café and the sales. Most of the food here are her recipes after all and what of the customers? They have known Oichi since the first café, surly they would start questioning why she's gone along with the changes of food and what not."

The other workers also gave their thoughts to Gin, Jushiro and Shunsui. "It doesn't matter what you say. In the end it is already done. However, if Ms. Yamamoto would like to tell us that she is no longer with Grimmjow, right here and now then there might be a slight chance she can keep her job." Everyone looked at Oichi.

Oichi looks at Gin. "Your asking me to just leave Grimmjow out in the cold now that he has nothing? For my job?" Gin smirked. "I refuse." Some of them looked shocked at her. "But boss lady, if you don't have this job then…" "It's fine." Oichi says. "I've lost my home, my money, and a few other things, losing my job just adds on to the pile." She looks down at Grayson. "I had nothing and Grimmjow was kind enough to take me in and try to help me get back on my feet. Now that he has lost everything to you really expect me to turn my nose up at him…I won't. We promised that after all this is over that we will start our lives together and I am determined to keep my promise just like he is." Gin chuckled. "Even if there is a possibility that he may go to jail." Oichi gave him a stern look. It made his skin get goosebumps. "Then I will wait for him or maybe even get a head start so that when he gets out he will at least have a roof over his head." Gin's smirk widens. He had come here to see the despair look on Oichi's face. It would have been such a trill to tell Grimmjow if he went to prison, but this was the opposite of what he wanted. Her face was full of determination. He let a chuckle slip out of his lips. "I see…Interesting indeed. Since you still wish to be by his side then I have no choice. Ms. Yamamoto, I wish you well in your future endeavors. You are to get your things and turn in your uniform and codes. If you don't have your things removed from the store within the week then the store will take ownership of them." Oichi looked at Gin with a slight confused look on her face but she nodded.

Nel was clearly upset at this. "Oichi! You can't be serious! Are you really going to give your job up for that bastard!" Oichi smiled at her. "It's okay Nel. There are other jobs out there okay. It sucks, and I really don't want to leave but there isn't more we can do." Nel bit her lip. "This isn't fair! You've been through enough!" Oichi grabbed her hand. "Nel please…no more." Nel felt Oichi's hand shake a bit. Nel looks at Gin. "Who is in charge now…" Gin looked at Luppi. "Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Nel yelled. Luppi chuckled. "I will happily accept this position. I'll do a much better job then Oichi over here hahaha!"

"Well my job here is done. Starrk we are leaving." Starrk sat up and yawned. "Finally…" Once they left the meeting was drawn to a close. The workers carried a rejected look on their face as they each hugged Oichi and thanked her for her work. Jushiro and Shunsui walked up to Oichi. "Ms. Oichi…" They both bowed to her making her eyes widen. "We are truly sorry for imposing more on your life. We did not want it to come this but…" "You don't have to say it Sir." Oichi says stopping him. "It's not my first time being a scapegoat for someone else's issue. With a last name like mine it's become like a running gag at this point. Thank for the opportunity to work here at this café and I can only hope it rises to the top as planned. Now if you will excuse me I have to…get my things pack and figure out where I'm going to go now." She bows back to them before leaving off to the back.

Shunsui rubbed his head. "Shunsui…I do not like this…" Jushiro said. "She's a strong woman. I didn't expect her to just give her job up so easily unless Grimmjow put her on game." He chuckled. "It might explain her calm expression. She is a very impressive woman and I'm sure if either one of us gives her a job she will do very well in it."

Oichi went to the back of office. She put Grayson down in his pen and started to gather her things. Nel, Momo, Kira, Hisagi, and Rukia walked just in time to see tears streaming down her cheeks. Nel and Momo quickly hugged her. "Oh hun…it's going to be okay." Nel says rubbing her back. "Yeah. It's like you said earlier. This is just the closing chapter of your life. Now you can start a new one!" Oichi sniffed as she wipes the tears from her eyes. "Y-Yeah. I know." Rukia looked down and took a step towards her. She was stop by a glaring Nel. "What's the point of you coming in here? Haven't you and your snotty nose man done enough damage. I bet your happy that you no longer have work under Oichi." "That's not it. I liked working under Oichi. I just…I just wanted to let her know if there was anything I could…" "There is nothing you can do but leave. Didn't you say it yesterday for her to stay away from you? How about you take a hike then!" Rukia bit her lip. "I can't console my friend after she lost her job!?" "Ha!? Friend? Don't make me laugh! A friend wouldn't stab another friend in the back. A friend wouldn't let their two-timing man take all their friends' money away and kick her out of her home. A friend would NOT try to make amends by trying to let that said friend be the God mother of the baby you and the two-timer made while you were behind her back!" "It's not fair of you to attack me like that Nel…but I get it…so in order to stop playing games with this whole situation…I want to tell Oichi the truth about me and Renji."

Kira frowned. "I don't think that's a good…" Oichi's head turned slightly. "No…this is the perfect time. While I am at my lowest right now. I'd rather hear this before I get my spirits high again. So start talking."

Rukia nodded. "In high school when you told me about your crush on Renji. Remember when I kept degrading him and making him to be the idiot that he was?" Oichi nodded. "That's because at the time we had already been dating before high school started." Nel frowned but Oichi grabbed her arm before she could say something. "I didn't have the heart to tell you about us specially since it was on the low at the time because my brother didn't approve. So when I told Renji about this we agreed that he was to take you as his girlfriend so that things wouldn't look weird with us. We never really broke it off but…" Momo bit her lip. "So you used her for your own gain? Rukia are you serious right now?" Rukia closed her eyes. "I know it was wrong and for years I wanted to tell you that, but we thought that after high school this would have been over. He was supposed to let you down gently and end it there so that we can finally be together but for some reason he just couldn't let you go and it frustrated me to the point where I…" "Until you decided to bring Ichigo into it. You know Ichigo had been crushing on Oichi for years as well." Rukia nodded. "I thought if Ichigo could get closer to Oichi then something might spark but Renji…he was just so fixated on you at the time that he shoved that idea out the window and assured me that everything will be fine and taking care of after that next year."

Oichi's eyes widen. She rubbed her face as a smile came to her face. She started to chuckle and then laugh. "O-Oichi!?" Momo asks in a concerning voice. Nel sighed. "Great you broke her! Now what am I going to tell that idiot!?"

Tears rolled down Oichi's cheeks again as she laughed. Rukia frowned. "Oichi. I'm so sorry about all of this." Oichi's laugh tones down, her tears still flowing. "So he never loved me is what your telling me? That's the whole basis of that story right? I was only used as another scapegoat for someone else's benefit?" "No! Oichi, Renji does…did…love you! I promise you that! That's why it was so hard for him to leave you!" Oichi shook her head. "No he didn't. I should have known. My father even picked it up but I was to love struck to see anything! I was used by Renji so that he could have a better life with you. You got a house that we were buying out. You got extra cash from the money he stole from me. Hell I'm pretty damn sure, at this point, that Renji rigged something that stopped me from becoming pregnant." Rukia rubbed her hands together. "He…He would slip birth controls in your drink or food…" "Case in point. So I wasted six years on a man who didn't even want to be with me? Wasted words. Wasted time. Wasted life. Oh God!" Oichi rubbed her face and walked to the back of the room. Nel was now sharing a concern look along with Momo and the others. It's rather rare for Oichi to say 'God' and not Gosh. "Maybe she has snapped…" Hisagi says. Oichi sighs and places her hands on her hips. "Well now…that changes a lot about certain things. It makes letting go more easier now I think. Thank you Rukia for finally telling me the truth. In the end that's really all I wanted. An explanation of what led up to this." Rukia felt warmth in Oichi's words. She tears up. "Oichi I…" Oichi held her hand up. "I've heard enough for today. I need to get my things packed before Luppi comes and try to steal my recipes and stuff. You all have your jobs to do so please give me a moment to myself." They all glanced at each other before leaving. When the door was closed Oichi fell to her knees. "Auntie!?" Grayson called out. "I'm fine sweetie. I just needed to sit down and think…" She put her hands on her face. 'Dammit all…I fell for his games hook line and sinker. How could I be so stupid!' She bit her lips. She wished Grimmjow would walk through that door like he always to. Whenever she came in here to cry out of frustration he would come right on time to hold her. She wrapped her arms around herself. More then anything she wanted to be in his arms right now.

During the time of the meeting, at the court house Grimmjow was sitting at the desk waiting for the verdict of the jury. Since they had gotten there a bit earlier than expected the judge went ahead and started the short trial. It was a private trail in order to avoid any more chaos throughout the city about Grimmjow's involvement with Aizen.

The people in the court were stun at what had just went on. Ichigo might have been the only one who had a regular expression on his face. Grimmjow wasn't sure what the hell was going on anymore. In some weird way all the evidence they had on him was gone. Like it had completely vanished. The prosecutor had nothing on him but the counterfeit money, they had been unable to retain any other evidence that linked him to the murders or anything else he had done while he was under Aizen. He looked at Demorest who was taping his fingers on the desk. "Oh, come on…" He whispered. Grimmjow wanted to ask him how he could have done this but sometimes it better not to ask. No doubt Dante had something to do with this. Even so, since they were still only charging him for counterfeiting money it was still possible for him to go jail for a long time. Specially with the amount found in the shipment and the apartment.

Finally, the jury had come back in the shortest amount of time. The judge looked at Grimmjow. "Will the defendant please stand." Grimmjow and Demorest stood up.

Grimmjow heart was racing. Back then in his glory days he could care less about how many years he did, but this was different. He didn't want to go to jail if it meant leaving Oichi alone. He wasn't really all into the praying stuff but today was the first day he had ever asked for some higher power to spare him this one time. He had never asked for forgiveness before so this had to count for something right?

Ichigo's head was down. He was reading a message from Nel. His eyes widen as he held his breath. He hated Grimmjow's guts, but he didn't want the bastard to go to jail to long. Oichi needed him more now than ever.

"Have the jury reached a verdict?" the judge asked. One man nodded. "We have, your honor." "What say you?"

"We the jury, find the defendant…"